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Intel 8th Generation Core i7 8700K & Core i5 8400 Review

Intel 8th Generation Core i7 8700K & Core i5 8400 Testing:

3DMark: The just-released version of Futuremark's popular 3DMark suite is designed to let a wider range of the user base make a comparative analysis of the gaming prowess of their systems from entry level PCs, to notebooks, and extreme gaming PCs.

Settings

Default test settings

Time Spy Score

Physics Test

Hitman (2016):

Hitman (2016) is a stealth action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Hitman (2016) is the sixth iteration of this series and acts as a prequel to the entire series, while also taking part after the events in Hitman: Absolution. The game was developed by IO interactive and published by Square Enix, with a release date for PC in March 2016 for the first part of the episodic content. To deliver the visuals, the game uses a modified Glacier 2 game engine. This title takes advantage of the ability to run in DirectX 12 mode for users who have adopted Windows 10.

Settings:

DirectX 12

Level Of Detail = High

SMAA

Texture Quality = High

Texture Filter = 16x Anisotropic

SSAO = On

Shadow Maps = Ultra

Shadow Resolution = High

Tom Clancy's The Division:

Tom Clancy's The Division faced an uphill battle to become the highest opening day grossing title in Ubisoft's history. Built as an open-world, third-person shooter video game, Ubisoft Massive developed the game with some assistance from Red Star Entertainment for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, with Ubisoft taking care of the publishing. Ubisoft Massive developed and built the Snowdrop game engine specifically for The Divison due to the need for an intelligent engine to manage the dynamic global illumination, destruction, detail, and visual effects.

Settings:

DirectX 12

High Preset

Shadow Quality = High

Post FX AA = Off

Temporal AA = Supersampling

Snow = Yes

Fog = Ultra

Anisotropic Filtering = 16x

Intel states we can see FPS results of up to 25% faster than 7th Generation products. Gears of War was the test it used, but with my test suite, I did not see performance bumps of 25%. I did see some nice margins over 7th Gen processors, as well as against AMD's Ryzen line in these tests. In the gaming tests, even the Core i7 8400 delivered excellent performance boosts in the games I test with. That's a welcome sight!